Anyone using last.fm for anything interesting?

I've been on last.fm for awhile, possibly since 2005. I suppose I could look it up. Anyway, lest this turn into some sort of egocentric wistful post of, ahem. Anyway: Does anyone actually use last.fm? I don't listen to my "radio", I have 15,000+ tracks in iTunes (aside to RIAA interlopers: they're almost all legal) and prefer to listen either via iTunes or one of my iPods. p. Around this time last year I took one of the last.fm "top 20" lists and manually converted it to an iTunes playlist. I had about half of the tracks and bought the other half through iTunes. I'm now contemplating a long (really freaking long) drive to South Beach in two weeks and would like to dumpster dive through last.fm to either create some interesting playlists out of my existing collection, or a mix of what I own and what I could buy through iTunes. There's something called mobster but it seems to be Windows only and all of my music (and reliable computing power) is on the Mac. And I'm not really looking to write a lot of crap, which I probably could do but by now someone, somewhere has had to have figured out how to mine last.fm for potential iTunes playlists, right?

If you're using last.fm my userid is epcostello.

I really need to learn how to write HTML some day.

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